• Losing sight of literature: the commodity of book packaging 

    Manno, Lindsey (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
    In every young writer's heart there is a dream, a dream that one day all of their hard work will lead to a successful, published novel. And not just any novel, but the next Great American novel that will be taught in classes ...
  • Making Pierre Menard author of the Quixote: critics, creators, and context in Borges 

    Strong, Sara (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
    Though it has not always been so, it is now possible to conceptualize the act of reading as a process in which we necessarily form an interpretation of a piece of literature, and in so doing, create the work, or the meaning ...